NVIDIA seems to be focusing on their niche market when they released the Quadro GP100 as an addition to the growing family of GPUs especially for computing machines. Find out where this new Quadro card fit in the big picture and how come it's called the "jack of all trade"?

NVIDIA Quadro GP100 Targets Professional Graphics Workloads

The SOLIDWORKS World Conference has opened the doors for NVIDIA to unveil their newest Quadro cards that aims to serve professional graphics workloads or workstations. According to PC Perspective, the three Quadro cards that were launched during the event are P4000, P2000 and GP100; among the three GP100 has been categorized under the high-end.

The new NVIDIA Quadro GP100 is reportedly based on the GP100 GPU that requires additional chassis fans because of its passive cooler but it is referred to as HPC accelerator for servers. What makes the Quadro GP100 unique is it falls somewhere between the GP102 with clockspeed of 1500 MHz and 12 TFLOPS and the newly released P6000 card.

Accordingly, Quadro GP100 has 3584 CUDA Cores with clockspeed of 1400 MHz, with single precision rating at 32-bit and 10.3 TFLOPS. In addition, the newly released Quadro card is considered by some tech websites as the jack of all trade card because it clearly does everything from graphics to computing but not necessarily the most powerful NVIDIA workstation card.

However, when compared to its sibling P6000, Quadro GP100 has 22% more pixel pushing power that would make it desirable for the Quadro customers who are using CAD/CAE that are both pixel-bound. Aside from that, Anand Tech reported that GP100 has 66 percent more memory bandwidth at 1.4GBps compared to P6000 with 432GBps.

On the other hand, Quadro GP100 is equipped with all the traditional hardware features that are usually present in Quadro cards. And that includes the four DisplayPort 1.4 ports, one single DVI for outputs on display, support for VR, Quadro Sync, Stereo connectors and quad-buffered stereo.

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